I didn't watch the Super Bowl.  I didn't fifty-fifty watch the Puppy Bowl, which is what the kids were watching.  I sat in the kitchen and ate so much hot spinach artichoke dip that I didn't fifty-fifty have room for the main dish, which was bacon.  Bacon, do you hear me?

Okay, I had a few pieces.  But I didn't accept room!

Anyway, I estimate I missed the principal point of the Super Bowl, which was the commercials.  Sounds like I didn't miss much.  I know that they're often trashy and offensive, and everyone says they were as well stupid and annoying this year.  And . . . tearing?  Here's what DoubleX Factor'due south Marjorie Valbrun had to say:

Aside from beingness sexist, several ads . . . seemed surprisingly violent, including those focused on men. I had non watched a Super Basin game in several years, then perhaps the level of violence is non that unusual to regular watchers. Just they even so seemed aggressively physical. . . Do the commercials really have to be only as physical equally the game to hold our attention?

I have a really hard time seeing the problem with aggressively concrete commercials aired during a game which is about trying to kill each other.  I guess the bloggers just bored with being outraged virtually sexism, which I can understand — it must be exhausting, particularly for poor, frail females!  Tee hee.

In example you are non familiar with the Double X Blog, it'south from the liberal merely contrarianSlate magazine, and has the montrsously inaccurate tagline, "What women really think."  This is kind of like a bag of salt having the tagline, "What slugs actually desire."  Nevertheless, I read the dreadful thing to proceed in bear upon with the kind of women who (and this actually happened one time) see me coming down with the sidewalk with my kids and say, "Eek!" and run abroad.

Virtually of the writers are run-of-the-mill, perpetually outraged feminists.  Amanda Marcotte stands out for her near-epileptic, flecks-of-spittle style of journalism, which recently and notably led her to blame pro-lifers for the grisly horrors committed past Kermit Gosnell.  Even her fellow bloggers took her to task for that bizarre accusation.  I can't even worry as well much nearly the damage she can do with that bespeak of view, because you'd have to be so far down nutso creek to take her seriously, there'southward no turning dorsum.

Okay, fine, then back to the Super Bowl:  the women didn't similar the violence, they didn't like the sexism, they didn't similar the stupidity.  But and so the blogger had this to say:

It felt as if advertisers went for inexpensive laughs this twelvemonth at the expense of imagination or wit.  I almost expected the Marx Brothers to show up.

Ohhh, no.

No, no, no.

Humorless feminist, you take gone too far.  The Marx Brothers signify a famine of imagination and wit?What is this, backwards day?

I badly promise she simply has never seen a Marx Brothers movie, and only knows that they're those black-and-white guys in the window of Poster Befouled at the mall.  And this is a crying shame.  If y'all await up "imagination and wit" in the dictionary, you will see a picture of Harpo Marx giving his leg to a blonde debutante.  If you Google "imagination and wit, " you will hear Groucho telling Margaret Dumont, "Those are my principles!  And if you don't like them . . . well, I have others."  And if it'south sexism you like, hither'southward Groucho as Captain Spaulding, the African Explorer:  "We took some pictures of the native girls, simply they weren't developed nonetheless.  But we're going back again in a couple of weeks!"

We're doing our office to innoculate our kids against creeping radical feminism:  we're having a Marx Brothers festival.  Then far we've seen A Nighttime at the Opera, Duck Soup,Horse Feathersouthward, and even A Dark in Casablanca, which was much funnier than I remembered.

Well, Marjorie Valbrun, why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out.  Normal humans:  what'southward your favorite Marx Brothers line?

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